Research for the Environment

Frank Zielinski

Projects

Project 1

Establishment of functional molecular markers for the characterisation of plant-microbe interactions in eco- and agroecosystems

As a model-interaction we use the Arbuskular Mykorrhiza, a globally occurring interaction between glomeromycotean soil fungi and roots of almost all land plants, a symbiosis that has a considerable impact on the global phosphate-, nitrogen- and carbon cycle.

The investigated processes for the establishment of functional molecular markers are:

• ageing (senescence) of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
• phosphate-uptake of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

Project 2

Investigation of glomeromycotean fungi in the environment for the presence of bacterial endosymbionts and their impact on the arbuscular mycorrhizal interaction


The projects are part of the UFZ research program Terrestral Environment.

Interests

• Host-Microbe Interactions in the symbiosis gradient between mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism
• Symbiosis as a factor of evolution
• Evolution of eukaryotes

Stations

Qualifications

Publications

In situ measurements of hydrogen sulfide, oxygen, and temperature in diffuse fluids of the ultramafic-hosted Logatchev hydrothermal vent field (14°45'N, Mid-Atlantic Ridge): implications for chemosymbiotic bathymodiolin mussels. F. Zielinski, H.-H. Gennerich, C. Borowski, F. Wenzhöfer, and N. Dubilier. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 12: Q0AE04 | 2011

Expression patterns of mRNAs for methanotrophy and thiotrophy in symbionts of the hydrothermal vent mussel Bathymodiolus puteoserpentis. A. Wendeberg, F. Zielinski, C. Borowski, and N. Dubilier. ISME Journal online | 2011

Symbiosis. S. Dattagupta and F. Zielinski. In Encyclopedia of Geobiology - Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Editors J. Reitner and V. Thiel. Springer Netherlands. Part 17, 866-870 | 2011

Geochemical constraints on the diversity and activity of H2-oxidizing microorganisms in diffuse hydrothermal fluids from a basalt- and an ultramafic-hosted vent. M. Perner, J. Petersen, F. Zielinski, H.-H. Gennerich, and R. Seifert. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 74: 55–71 | 2010

Der Eukaryoten-Zellkern als ökologische Nische für Bakterien. F. Zielinski und N. Dubilier. Biospektrum 16: 12-15 | 2010

Widespread occurrence of an intranuclear bacterial parasite in vent and seep bathymodiolin mussels. F. Zielinski, A. Pernthaler, S. Duperron, L. Raggi, O. Giere, C. Borowski, and N. Dubilier. Environmental Microbiology 11: 1150-1167 | 2009

Young volcanism and related hydrothermal activity at 5°S on the slow-spreading southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge. K. M. Haase, S. Petersen, A. Koschinsky, R. Seifert, C. W. Devey, R. Keir, K. S. Lackschewitz, B. Melchert, M. Perner, O. Schmale, J. Süling, N. Dubilier, F. Zielinski, S. Fretzdorff, D. Garbe-Schönberg, U. Westernströer, C. R. German, T. M. Shank, D. Yoerger, O. Giere, J. Kuever, H. Marbler, J. Mawick, C. Mertens, U. Stöber, M. Walter, C. Ostertag-Henning, H. Paulick, M. Peters, H. Strauss, S. Sander, J. Stecher, M. Warmuth, and S. Weber. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 8: Q11002 | 2007

A dual symbiosis shared by two mussel species, Bathymodiolus azoricus and Bathymodiolus puteoserpentis (Bivalvia: Mytilidae), from hydrothermal vents along the northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge. S. Duperron, C. Bergin, F. Zielinski, A. Blazejak, A. Pernthaler, Z. P. McKiness, E. DeChaine, C. M. Cavanaugh, and N. Dubilier. Environmental Microbiology 8: 1441-1447 | 2006

Discovery of new hydrothermal vent fields on the Southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge (4°S - 10°S) during Cruise M68/1. A. Koschinsky, A. Billings, C. W. Devey, N. Dubilier, A. Duester, D. Edge, D. Garbe-Schönberg, C. R. German, O. Giere, R. Keir, K. S. Lackschewitz, H. A. Mai, H. Marbler, J. Mawick, B. Melchert, C. Mertens, M. Peters, S. Sandler, O. Schmale, W. Schmidt, R. Seifert, C. Seiter, U. Stöber, I. Suck, M. Walter, S. Weber, D. Yoerger, M. Zarrouk, and F. Zielinski. InterRidge News 15: 9-15 | 2006

Hydrothermal and volcanic activity found on the Southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge. C. W. Devey, K. S. Lackschewitz, E. Baker, and B. Bannert, O. Bislich, G. Engemann, L. Fowler, P. Günnewig, D. Hüttig, Y.-G. Kim, A. Klügel, A. Knee, A. Koschinsky, A. Ksienzyk, B. Kührig, T. Kuhn, D. Matthew, C. Mertens, T. Mosch, B. Murton, N. Nowald, H. Paulick, V. Ratmeyer, M. Reuter, I. Rousse, O. Schmale, W. Schmidt, F. Schubotz, M. Schröder, C. Seiter, K. Stange, J. Stecher, U. Stöber, S. Storm, J. Sültenfuss, T. Teichgräber, P. O. Thierer, S. Tille, S. Tyler, W. Walter, P. Wefers, and F. Zielinski. EOS 86: 209-216 | 2005

The Logatchev hydrothermal field – revisited: preliminary results of the R/V METEOR Cruise HYDROMAR I (M60/3). T. Kuhn, B. Alexander, N. Augustin, D. Birgel, C. Borowski, L. de Carvalho, G. Engemann, S. Ertl, L. Franz, C. Grech, P. Herzig, R. Hekinian, J. Imhoff, T. Jellinek, S. Klar, A. Koschinsky, J. Kuever, F. Kulescha, K. Lackschewitz, S. Petersen, V. Ratmeyer, J. Renken, G. Ruhland, J. Scholten, K. Schreiber, R. Seifert, J. Süling, M. Türkay, U. Westernströer, and F. Zielinski. InterRidge News 13: 1-4 | 2004

Gene cloning, sequencing, and characterization of a family 9 endoglucanase (CelA) with an unusual pattern of activity from the thermoacidophile Alicyclobacillus acidocaldarius ATCC27009. K. Eckert, F. Zielinski, L. Lo Leggio, and E. Schneider Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology 60: 428-436 | 2002

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